Two new sections, one familiar place

The module adds an Order By and a Pool By block to the Filters / Group By / Favorites dropdown. They appear on kanban views only, share a single column so the dropdown stays compact, and behave like the sections your users already know.

Order By

Pick any stored field and the cards reorder immediately. Click the arrow to flip between ascending and descending, add a second and a third field to build a multi-level sort, and remove a term with one click. The order becomes part of the search, so saving the search as a favorite keeps it.

• Works on grouped and ungrouped kanban views alike.
• Several sort fields, applied in the order you picked them.
• Ascending or descending per field.
• Stored in the search, saved with favorites.

Pool By — swimlanes

Pool By adds a second grouping on a many2one or selection field and draws it as horizontal lanes crossing the kanban columns. A card then sits at the intersection of its column and its lane — the stage it is in, and the salesperson, team, priority or customer it belongs to.

• Columns keep everything they already do: headers, folding, progress bars, quick create.
• Lane titles stay pinned on the left while the board scrolls; column headers stay pinned on top.
• Collapse a lane you are not working on.
• Drag a card to another lane or another column — both fields are written in one move.
• Without an active Group By, the lanes simply span the full width.

Bulk operations on the cards

Select several cards and act on all of them at once, the way you already do in a list view. Ctrl+click (Cmd+click on a Mac) picks a card, Shift+click picks a whole run of cards of a column, Esc or a click on an empty spot of the board lets them go. The selected cards are highlighted, and a selection bar shows how many there are and what can be done with them.

• Move to… — send the cards to another column (stage, salesperson, priority…) in one click.
• Set field… — pick a field (many2one, selection, checkbox, date, text, number) and give it one value with its usual widget.
• Archive / Unarchive and Delete, with the usual confirmation.
• Drag several cards — drag one of the selected cards and the others follow it to the target column, landing right below it, in the column order, exactly where a single card would.
• Works together with the swimlanes and the Order By sort, on grouped and ungrouped boards (Move to and dragging need a grouped board).
• Respects access rights and the view settings: a user who may not edit or delete does not see those buttons, and a board whose cards cannot be dragged offers no Move to.

Every kanban view, no configuration

Install it and the two sections and the selection bar are there — on CRM, Sales, Projects, Recruitment, Helpdesk, Inventory, and on the kanban views of your own modules. No view has to be inherited, no field has to be declared, no menu has to be configured.

The pool travels in the search context under the pool_by key. That means you can also preset it on an action — {'pool_by': 'user_id'} — and it is stored together with a saved favorite, so a team can share a swimlane view.

The same two sections on Project tasks — swimlanes per project, columns per personal stage.

Technical notes

• No model is extended and no table is created — the module is web client only.
• Bulk operations go through the standard write, action_archive and unlink methods, so your access rules, constraints and automations apply to every card.
• No data is collected, sent anywhere, or stored outside your database.
• No activation key, no external service, no license check.
• Lanes are built with a real second grouping level, so counts and pagination stay correct.
• Only lanes that contain records are shown.
• Depends on web only.

Also part of NDev Theme

This module comes included in NDev Theme - App Grid, our complete look-and-feel pack for Odoo Community: a full-screen home menu with app groups, pinned and recent apps and a search over every menu, a start app per user, your own brand and menu colours (a red menu on staging, so nobody mistakes it for production), a dark mode, plus Chatter Width & Filters, Kanban Swimlanes & Sort and List Power Tools. Already have the theme? Then you already have this module.

Support

Written and maintained by Svyatoslav Nadozirny. Questions, bug reports and feature requests are welcome — answered directly by the author.

info@many2one.online